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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2016-02-17 14:41:14 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-02-22 08:51:38 +0100 |
| commit | 9ccaf77cf05915f51231d158abfd5448aedde758 (patch) | |
| tree | d6cd4476921b59c2e20773ea585792a867dc328b /arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.c | |
| parent | d2aa1acad22f1bdd0cfa67b3861800e392254454 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9ccaf77cf05915f51231d158abfd5448aedde758.tar.bz2 | |
x86/mm: Always enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and remove the Kconfig option
This removes the CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA option and makes it always enabled.
This simplifies the code and also makes it clearer that read-only mapped
memory is just as fundamental a security feature in kernel-space as it is
in user-space.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.c b/arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.c index 3f92ce07e525..27538f183c3b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.c @@ -142,7 +142,6 @@ static int test_NX(void) * by the error message */ -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA /* Test 3: Check if the .rodata section is executable */ if (rodata_test_data != 0xC3) { printk(KERN_ERR "test_nx: .rodata marker has invalid value\n"); @@ -151,7 +150,6 @@ static int test_NX(void) printk(KERN_ERR "test_nx: .rodata section is executable\n"); ret = -ENODEV; } -#endif #if 0 /* Test 4: Check if the .data section of a module is executable */ |